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Alpha71 ,

I was just in the hospital for some tests and needed to take some food with the meds they gave me, They gave me two pieces of toast.

Kelly ,

I normally just have a price of fruit if its a time I would normally be eating anyway.

Something like an apple is easy, fast, and convenient.

Leftovers might also be an option if there is something like a sausage or chicken wing in the fritdge.

Uturds ,

7 happy meals

vodkasolution ,

Once I had a wisdom tooth making me crazy and the pharmacist told me that one course (I’m Italian, he said a dish of pasta) would help, nothing less

volvoxvsmarla ,

Wait so you had to eat pasta to ease the pain or did he also recommend some pain relief medicine?

vodkasolution ,

Lol, sorry, eating pasta would have helped the painkillers do their job!

Lost_My_Mind ,

C’mon man! You can’t just be asking me questions like that!

Even without medicine I don’t know what the right amount of food is.

Is it a 7 coarse meal eaten within 10 minutes?

Or is it nothing at all for days on end, as your stomach growls and mocks you for being so fat?

Who can say?

meco03211 ,

For adderall I was told to try to eat a full meal before taking simply because it’s an appetite suppressant, and it helps avoid too much weight loss.

For vicodin I took it on an empty stomach once and pretty quickly developed a crazy brain fog. Ate a bit and it seemed to help.

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

It also causes your digestive track to process at a normal speed and so the absorption of the medicine is more spread out.

Important with something like an extended release medicine like Adderall XR which will build up and then stay somewhat steady and then taper off. And essential for a non-XR since it’s already going to be alot hitting you and then tapering down over time.

robolemmy ,
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Usually just a small amount of food is enough, but your pharmacist should talk to you the first time you fill the prescription and tell you if more is necessary

memfree ,
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I’m not a doctor, so don’t take my word for it, but I’ve heard the same as robolemmy. To be a bit less abstract, my understanding is you eat enough so that your stomach will digest normally instead of just handling the medicine as a tiny bit of something caustic. A granola bar should be fine, but you might do better with a slice of bread or something a tad easier to digest. Then again, I don’t think it matters all that much.

Windex007 ,

So you trick your stomach like you’d trick a dog by hiding medicine in their food?

memfree ,
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Nah, that’s all about getting the dog to actually swallow the pill.

For us, it is about buffering the concentration. Even aspirin can upset your stomach (well, SOME people’s stomachs) such that making “Bufferin” was once a big deal. It was just aspirin with a buffering agent, but having a buffer really mattered for some people.

Kolanaki ,
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Usually just enough to keep your stomach settled. I don’t know if this is the case for all medicines like that, but every time I’ve had to take something with food, it was because it can make you queasy if you don’t have anything in your stomach.

bstix ,

Yes, exactly, it’s about controlling the dosing. If you haven’t eaten for a while, or only had fluids, and then suddenly eat medicine, it’s more likely to be vomited out, so nobody knows how much you had.

If you can’t keep food in, medicine won’t work that way either.

Eating pills on an empty stomach can easily cause acid reflux. Since about a fourth if all people have acid reflux issues, it’s probably a good idea to advise people to down pills alongside other food that’ll stay down.

Don_Dickle ,

It depends on what pill your taking but usually it is 375 calories. I used to be on latuda and had to force feed myself. Until I stopped now im on geodone and all I have to eat is like a quarter of a sandwhich. So it very much depends on this pill

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